Vocalist Mark Robert Fuller has given Music Feeds exclusive access to his personal snaps from that tour of the States – here he guides us through their marathon American jaunt, highlighting the highs and lows life on the road for a band intent on cracking the big time.

Mark:“At the start of February this year, we flew to the US to spend four months living out of our van, touring and playing shows all around America. We released our first record, played on telly, missed our girlfriends and friends and families and missed our biggest festival show to date because of a flat tyre. We caught weird rashes, and got caught in one of the biggest snow blizzards in North America’s history.

“We played 70-something shows in cities like New York, Los Angeles, Portland, New Orleans, Austin, Salt Lake City, Colorado Springs, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Chicago, Aspen, Sacramento, Santa Ana, San Diego, Washington, Anaheim… We played more cities than we knew existed in the States, and a few in Canada! Some were empty rooms, some were sold-out shows. It was an awesome, mind-bending four months.

“I bought a camera from an op shop in Virginia Beach for three bucks and here’s some photos we took with it.”

Gallery: Gold Fields US Tour Photo Diary

000001

Rob setting up for our show in the carpark of Waterloo Records at SXSW

02

Packing up by the train tracks after a show in Tucson

03

Coachella, such an amazing weekend

04

Aussie BBQ at SXSW

05

Coachella

06

On stage at our first show at SXSW

07

Waiting for the bus outside LA

08

Rob sleeping

09

In ze van, en route to San Fran for BFD Festival

10

Hotel Saguro in Palm Springs

11

Our American tour manager, Matt, with some Jameson Irish Whiskey in Toronto, Canada

12

Pool party in Palm Springs

13

Pre-show Austin, Texas

14

Disneyland

15

Vin sound checking at a college show somewhere in California

16

Hard Rock Cafe, Las Vegas

17

Luke and Ry DJing at a party outside Coachella

18

Rob sleeping at the Shelter in Detroit

19

Vin and Ry working on the Empire of the Sun remix in LA

20

Kicking the footy. This was the first photo taken with this camera

21

Drum skin

22

Flat tyre on the highway in the middle Wyoming. And the reason we missed Sasquatch! Festival

23

Flat tyre on the highway in the middle Wyoming. And the reason we missed Sasquatch! Festival Pt. 2

24

Backdrop painted by Leonard Bros, the guys who did all the 'Black Sun' artwork

25

The crowd in Denver, CO.

26

Sydney Airport on the way home

27

Walking out for the last show at El Rey Theatre in LA

28

Ry at practice back in Melbourne, rehearsing for our Australian album tour